The Drama of the American Short Story, 1800-1865
- Submitting institution
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The University of Kent
- Unit of assessment
- 27 - English Language and Literature
- Output identifier
- 8362
- Type
- A - Authored book
- DOI
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10.3998/mpub.8783628
- Publisher
- University of Michigan Press
- ISBN
- 9780472130030
- Open access status
- -
- Month of publication
- October
- Year of publication
- 2016
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Request cross-referral to
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
- No
- Criminology
- No
- Interdisciplinary
- No
- Number of additional authors
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0
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
- Yes
- Double-weighted statement
- This book of 110,000 words is comprised of new, contextualized readings of the influential short story work of key progenitors of the form (Washington Irving, Edgar Allan Poe, Herman Melville, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Louisa May Alcott). It is based on extensive archival research from across the USA, and expands out into a theory of the short story form as a whole. It relies on disciplines not commonly utilized in American literary studies (performance theory, anthropology, and antebellum theatre history) and adopts a transatlantic purview (including engagement with British, French and German literatures).
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
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- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
- No
- English abstract
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